Julie Maxwell

Julie Maxwell is a British novelist and literary critic born in Southall in 1975, educated at Christ Church, Oxford where she earned a First in English and specialized in Shakespeare studies.RCW Literary Agency, Sam Szanto Interview. Her debut novel You Can Live Forever (2003) won the Betty Trask Award, was BBC Radio 5 Live Book of the Month, and a TLS Book of the Year; subsequent works include These Are Our Children (Observer Book of the Year), The Image of the King, and The Blind Fugitive, blending literary fiction with historical elements.Fantastic Fiction, Inheritance Books. She has received multiple Authors’ Foundation awards and held fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge universities.